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March 26th, 2005, 08:26 PM
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| Jerky breowing - scrolling - typing please help Hello everybody, i just entered the world of mac, with a powerbook g4 and macOSX 1.3.7 I'm using both opera and mozilla, latest version, an i must say, browsing is painful. Athough my ping times and download speeds are ok, scolling down pages when browsing is extremely jerky, right clicking and copy - pasting - bookmarking takes respectable time to complete, typing has hickups, and generally, it feels like browsing with a very very old pc! Are all macOS systems so slow with browsers? Everything else seems to be running fine i presume. Thanks a lot.  |
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March 26th, 2005, 09:22 PM
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| How much ram do you have in your PB? |
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March 26th, 2005, 09:28 PM
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| On my iBook G4, I have used Safari, Firefox, and Camino. Safari is slow to me and can't import or export bookmarks unless its "Debug Menu" is enabled. Both Firefox and Camino are faster on my machine. Currently, I am using Camino. I like its interface a bit better than that of Firefox. Scrolling seems smooth enough with both Camino and Firefox.
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#5
March 27th, 2005, 04:58 AM
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| i unistalled safari, it was awfully slow. I have IE, firefox, opera, and they are all very jerky. I have a full 512 mb of ram! The biggest problem is scrolling down pages, using the touchpad or the mouse wheel, it starts slowly and then accelerates and jumps unread parts of the page. I've tried changing the mouse options but nothing.... |
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#6
March 27th, 2005, 07:20 AM
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| Have you tried toggling the 'Use Smooth Scrolling' setting in the System Preferences/Appearance pane? This can make a big difference in the 'feel' of scrolling.
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#7
March 27th, 2005, 08:04 PM
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| How fast is your PowerBook? Doug
__________________ "Just as some newborn race of superintelligent robots are about to consume all humanity, our dear old species will likely be saved by a Windows crash. The poor robots will linger pathetically, begging us to reboot them, even though they'll know it would do no good." -Anonymous |
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#8
March 28th, 2005, 08:37 AM
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| Actually, I think I am having the same problem. I noticed it last night. If I use the wheel on my mouse in FireFox, it will sometimes jump entire "half-pages" and it's easy to miss stuff. I will look into that smooth scrolling when I get home. I have a PowerMac G4, dual 1Ghz with 1Gig ram. cbmeeks |
